Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy - CUBA

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CUBA (AO4 - conteext)"Unbelievable!In this country there is no gasoline, but cars are all over the road... There's no food, but everybody is cooking dinner...They have no money, but everybody is dancing and drinking rum..."CUBAfrom RAPUREby Carol Ann Duffy- Veronica from World NomadsCUBAbecomes communistPEOPLE live in isolation from the rest of the world--blinded from realityLIKE LOVE?CUBANS - 'HAPPY PEOPLE'what tourists sayNo getting up from the bed in this grand hoteland getting dressed, like a work of artrubbing itself out.

No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray when you leave,as though you might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down. No glass

of champagne, leftto go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp,the frantic bubbles swimming for the light. No

white towel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor.no brief steam on the mirror there for a fingerto smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name.

No soft soaprubbed between four hands. No

flannel. No future plans.No black cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. No

Cuba.anaphoraalliteration/sibilancepersonificationMARK-UPCUBAFORM1 stanza, 14 lines: a sonnet (doesn't follow traditional form)lines range from 9 to 17 syllablesno pattern in metreno rhyme schemerepetition of "no" at the beginning of clauses (anaphora)rhythmic devices:enlistingenjambment "No glass of champagne, left / to go flat." "No soft soap / rubbed""ing" repetition --> prolonged, dreary"getting," "rubbing," "swimming"LITERAL MEANINGnarrative voice laments the break-up of the relationship, and undoes the pastpoem is an undoing of the memory of Cuba, a joyful and romantic shared experiencemonologue, mournful, dejected voiceFIGURATIVE MEANINGthe end of love: there is no future for the coupleno romantic escape or place to be in bliss, ignorant (in love)unknown/odd and yet familiar (have heard the sound--or how it goes--before)hSOUND DEVICESTRADITIONALSONNETFORMSHAKESPEAREAN14 lines 4 stanzas: 3 of 4 lines1 of 2 linesrhyme: abab-cdcd-efef-ggiambic pentameterMODERN 14 linessubverts traditional sonnet formconsonance"...toss it down. No glass...""No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss." "No white towel,/ strewn..."assonance"No brief steam on the mirror there for a finger." "...rubbed between four hands. No flannel. No future plans."alliteration "red rose"sibilance"soft soap"SHOW END OF LOVEAnaphora & Enlistingrhythmic devices and help construct structure of poemANAPHORA (repetition of same word at the beginning of lines or clauses)"No getting up from the bed""No lifting the red rose""No future plans""No good night kiss"-> chaos in end of relationship, one persistent and constant image/feeling is one of lossLISTING"No flannel. No future plans.""No brief steam on the mirror there for a finger / to smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name." "No black cab, sad hearse, on the rack.No getting up from the bed in this grand hoteland getting dressed, like a work of artrubbing itself out. No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray when you leave,as though you might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down. No glass of champagne, leftto go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp,the frantic bubbles swimming for the light. No white towel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor.no brief steam on the mirror there for a fingerto smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name. No soft soaprubbed between four hands. No flannel. No future plans.No black cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. No Cuba.VISUAL "work of art rubbing itself out" "No lifting the red rose from the room service tray" "walk to the lip of a grave and toss it down""No glass of champagne, left / to go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp""frantic bubbles swimming for the light" "No white towel, / strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor""No brief steam on the mirror there"

TACTILE "a finger / to smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name" "No soft soap rubbed between four hands"Figurative Languageo Simile"No getting up from the bed and getting dressed, like a work of art / rubbing itself out""No white towel,strewn, like a shroud"

o Synecdoche"no flannel" "a finger to smudge in a heart"short, stiff, small portions (pain), grows, listing makes context more severe and seriousno lover - flannel stands a a symbol for the loveruse of the finger as a synecdoche suggests how effortlessly a heart can be brokenpersonification is in a semantic field of grief and desperation beauty and artistic creation is desecrated/undoneundoing of a shared moment/memoryStriking Imagesimages are used in a negative way - their absence serves to display the overall lack of love and beauty--symbolic of the death of romance/loveform& sounddevicesDISCUSSION QUESTIONSBIBLIOGRAPHYpictures:http://www.russianartist.info/bird-mother1-f-b.jpghttp://ih2.redbubble.net/work.4583022.2.flat,550x550,075,f.love-sticks-sweat-drips-self-portrait.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/(Sculpture)_%22Love_blinds.%22,_by_Centennial_Photographic_Co..pnghttp://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium/graceful-love-elizabeth-weber.jpghttp://www.chinaoilpaintinggallery.com/oilpainting/Jean-Honore-Fragonard/The-Love-Letter.jpg

ideas:

(didn't find much)http://www.ehow.com/how_3335_write-sonnet.htmlhttp://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18846http://journals.worldnomads.com/kirill/country/56/Cubaid1 - Is love ultimately presented as something good or bad?

2 - What connotation does the title 'Cuba' have?

3 - Is the narrator a reliable one? Do you trust her?CUBA

No getting up from the bed in this grand hoteland getting dressed, like a work of art rubbing itself out. No lifting the red rosefrom the room service tray when you leave,as though you might walk to the lip of a graveand toss it down. No glass of champagne, left to go flat in the glow of a bedside lamp,the frantic bubbles swimming for the light. No white towel,strewn, like a shroud, on the bathroom floor.no brief steam on the mirror there for a finger

to smudge in a heart, an arrow, a name. No soft soaprubbed between four hands. No flannel. No future plans.No black cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. No Cuba.Also lacks rhyme in the couplet:No black cab, sad hearse, on the rank. No queue there.No getting away from this. No goodnight kiss. No Cuba.assonanceconsonancesimiletricolonenjambementsynecdocheallusionIS TURNED ON ITS HEAD AND ISMODERNISEDCREATIVE WRITING EXERCISE

4 - Write a retrospective view of the holiday from the subject's point of view. How do you regard the narrator during and since the holiday? You could write this in the form of a diary entry or as a transcript between the subject and her therapist!...and to finishnothing to do with the poem just something fun ...It's the Gibson Brothers!